<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="Research Article" dtd-version="1.0"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">iarjms</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">IARJMS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IARJMS</journal-id><issn>2708-3594</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjms.2020.v01i01.013</article-id><title-group><article-title>Perception of people using Rock Salt (Sendha Namak) residing in hilly city of Himachal Pradesh, India</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Anmol</given-names><surname>Gupta</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Amit</given-names><surname>Sachdeva</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Prem</given-names><surname>Lal</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Devender</given-names><surname>Kumar</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><aff-id id="aff-a" /><abstract>Dietary salt&amp;nbsp;plays a very crucial role in maintaining human health. Faulty salt intake practices are deeply associated with many healths related problems. Despite significant progress has been made by the government through the supply of iodized salt at every level, some households in this hilly region of Himachal Pradesh still use Rock Salt/Sendha Namak&amp;nbsp;in place of iodized salt. The present editorial explains the reasons and perception of the people for using Rock Salt.</abstract></article-meta></front><body /><back /></article>